21st Century Ecology of Life - Tag Archive

The Epiphanic Mood and the Power of the Heart

May 6th, 2010 | Posted by Mushin in alchemy - (1 Comments)

I’m in an epiphanic mood today – matter of fact, whenever I truly appreciate you being you, a flower being a flower and the house being the house, I’m in such a mood… only I didn’t know until today. Becoming conscious of anything means, “There is something ‘out there’, independent of me, that alights in … Read more →

compassion, consciousness, Epiphany, heart, power of the heart, Theophany

Revisioning Reality: The Soul of Body and Spirit

January 11th, 2010 | Posted by Mushin in general - (3 Comments)

I’m starting to leave the idea of oneness behind in favor of a kind of pluralistic, polytheistic, polycentric inner/outer reality. I’m starting to contemplate that monotheism, oneness, big bang, verticality, all-pervading consciousness, etc. are part of a perspective that is always playing for dominance (and obviously is not; but downplaying what … Read morehinders it … Read more →

analogy, archetype, consciousness, Inscape, Jungian psychology, Michel Bauwens, Monotheism, Morphic field, morphic resonance, oneness, Pantheon, Perennial philosophy, Pluralism, presencing, Reality, Rupert Sheldrake, self

Body, Soul and Spirit 1: Modes of being alive

This is the very first installment of what I hope will become a Body, Soul and Spirit series of posts that will meander around most of the topics that keep fascinating me since a while. Starting with a meeting with a great and lovely man in Basel, Switzerland who remembers a long line of incarnations … Read more →

awareness, collective consciousness, consciousness, enlightenment, flow, oneness, psychology, reflection, self, soul, spirituality, we-fullness, witnessing

Resonance & the Living Field

In recent weeks I’ve been contemplating the living field and how it operates. In “The Living Field, Participatory Design & Collaboration Ecology” one of the important points was, apart from taking a close look at what kinds of fields we are dealing with and some other matters, that processes like participatory design and community building … Read more →

between-us, consciousness, dance, identity, information, Isadora Duncan, living field, meaning, object, Robert Kegan, subject

The Living Field & the Art of Living

Wikipedia: Art is the process or product of deliberately arranging elements in a way that appeals to the senses or emotions. It encompasses a diverse range of human activities, creations, and modes of expression, including music and literature. In my most recent post I have been revisiting what I’ve called the Living Field, how I … Read more →

art, beauty, between-us, collective intelligence, consciousness, constellations, dynamic presencing, emergence, famil, happiness, relationship, spirituality, we-fullness

Enlightening the Passions – Day 12

“Thanks to the human heart by which we live; thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears.” – William Wordsworth Last night, brushing my teeth I looked in the mirror, and what I saw made my inner critic come out. The feeling that goes with that is very similar to distrust which is the negative … Read more →

consciousness, criticism, curiosity, empty space, feeling field, free jazz, heart, listening, mirror

Enlightening the Passions – Day 10 (Interlude)

A calm day starting out beautifully. And the interesting fact that, if a day starts like this it’s hard to focus on the more challenging feelings. So I took that as an invitation to explore – with my imagination, a major tool if used with care and not to avoid this, that or the other … Read more →

consciousness, culture, Descartes, family, feeling field, Hollywood, loyalty, religion, romanticism, science, spirituality

Where the mind resides

We have been brought up to believe that the mind is located inside the head. But there are good reasons for thinking that this view is too limited. Recent experimental results show that people can influence others at a distance just by looking at them, even if they look from behind and if all sensory … Read more →

brain, consciousness, mind, Rupert Sheldrake, science

Knowledge is…

… to man what pheromones are to ants, and the dance is to bees: it is a way to navigate in life to the greater good of all. Love, of course, also is a way to navigate, and so is ‘following your heart’, as is inquiring into the truth and beautification. Take this quote: Human … Read more →

collective intelligence, consciousness, Evan Thompson, evolution, interbeing, intersubjectivity, mutuality, relating, relational spirituality, we-culture, we-fullness, we-space

Integral We-Fullness – A Trialogue (The We of Us – Part 2)

The last trialogue The We of Us [alas, link no longer functioning] was published here on May 21st. Since then there has been two posts by Michel Bauwens of the P2P-Foundation on his blog; one in which he talks about my post “We are the Next Buddha” and one where he looks at Helen’s post … Read more →

acceptance, between-us, change, circle being, consciousness, David Suzuki, development, Douglas Cohen, ego, emergence, enlightenment, Helen Titchen-Beeth, Indra's net, Masaru Emoto, Masuro Emoto, Michel Bauwens, mutuality, relational spirituality, Robert Kegan, soul family, spiritual practice, story telling, storytelling, sub-personality, subpersonality, Susanne Cook-Greuter, We, we-culture, we-full living, we-fullness, we-space, Wu Wei

We are the next Buddha

Helen wrote in her blog “Why the next Buddha will be a collective.” I hope to show with this article where I am coming from in this regard so that in the time to come we can have beautiful dialogues, trialogues or any other -logues to help this meme propagate. I guess, for me it … Read more →

acceptance, Alan Rayner, between-us, big mind, circle being, collective intelligence, consciousness, cooperative spirituality, dynamic presencing, emergence, emerging archetype, evolution, evolutionary enlightenment, facilitation, fractals, Genpo Roshi, human evolution, Inclusionality, John Heron, Jorge Ferrer, Jupiter, knowledge gardening, living field, Martin Buber, mutuality, my life, pluralistic spirituality, relational spirituality, relationship, Samuel Bonder, satori, Saturn, senex, soul family, space, spiritual practice, spirituality, transpersonal psychology, What is real?

Towards an Integral & Pluralistic Spirituality

An archetype is emerging – the archetype of a participatory, integral and pluralistic spiritual culture. People all over the world — caring about the life on and of this planet, and experiencing themselves as embedded in continually expanding networks and environments — are seeking genuine, open and constructive dialogue and mutual support in their work … Read more →

archetype, between-us, consciousness, constellations, cooperative spirituality, emergence, enlightenment, evolution, integral culture, living field, pluralistic spirituality, relational spirituality, spiritual practice, spirituality

A Collective Emergence – a deep view into Andrew Cohens teaching

As part of his Evolutionary Enlightenment Teachings the spiritual teacher Andrew Cohen in an article “A Collective Emergence” speaks about what others have called “Circle Being” (Otto Scharmer), “Community Building (Scott Peck), “Circle of the Heart” etc. Andrew Cohen is talking, of course, about what happens within the framework of a certain context — that … Read more →

Andrew Cohen, between-us, circle being, community, consciousness, emergence, enquiry, relational spirituality, spiritual teacher

A Culture of Suffering?

I can’t help but notice the enormous energy most people expand to avoid suffering in their own lives and the life of those they cherish. Nevertheless it looks to me as if this very avoidance brings much more suffering. Not only the Buddha promises – he does so categorically if I’m not mistaken – that … Read more →

Buddha, consciousness, culture, Suffering

Why God does not need a Throne

Moving beyond feudalistic spiritual structures Read more →

authority, community, consciousness, fallacy of spirituality, god, guruism, integral culture

The Living Field

The knowing and the energy field and how they connect Read more →

community, consciousness, constellations, energy, energy field, energy fields, energy-constellations, family constellations, living field, morphogenetic field, movements of the soul, science